Commodity Chemicals

I've often lamented the small selection of Brazilian stocks available to US investors (about 35 issues - list here), but I thought I was quite familiar with the majority of them.  I was recently emailed a chart of Braskem (BAK) and after I wiped away the saliva dripping off my chin I decided to...

Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company Limited (NYSE: SHI) announced the unaudited operating results of the Company and its subsidiaries for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2009. Under the China Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises, the Group's operating income for the Period...

Shiner International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEST) is today’s top percentage gainer in morning trade and surged 30% today to $1.82 on an unusual huge volume of 1.73 million shares after today it announced that it has entered into a new contract with Shineway Group. The Company believes that this contact...

CNBC’s Mad Money Jim Cramer is bullish on Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE: FCX). In yesterday’s trade FCX made a new 52-week at $76.55. Cramer also likes McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) its 3.9% dividend yield, and he recommended buying more if the stock price dips. NVIDIA...

Speedus Corp. (NASDAQ: SPDE) is among the top percentage gainers in morning trade and surged 145% to $7.94 on huge volume of 2.83 million shares as today it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market its new Signal X6(TM) device. Zargis also announced the delivery of...

A very quiet week on the news front ahead of us, so I thought I'd post some of the strongest charts in terms of sustained upward movement that does not include a recent huge gap up on "news event" (some of these have small gaps. I excluded gold / silver stocks which of course enjoyed material...

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - August 18, 2009) - CMT today announced it will host informative sessions on data loss prevention (DLP) as part of a road-show series designed to provide CIOs and CISOs with practical knowledge of the primary defenses against data breach including DLP, endpoint...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Aug. 18, 2009) - Pyng Medical Corp. (TSX VENTURE:PYT) released its unaudited third quarter fiscal 2009 results for the period ending June 30, 2009. An exclusive prime vendor agreement was signed with Tri-anim Health Services, Inc. (Sarnova LLC) to extend...

FORTE ENERGY NL ACN 009 087 852 ASX CODE: FTE, AIM CODE: FTE Telephone: +618...

PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - Aug. 18, 2009) - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES Growing junior producer, Troy Resources NL ("Troy") (TSX:TRY)(ASX:TRY) today announced its updated Mineral Resources and Reserves statement;...

Tyler Durden submits: Too bad small and medium businesses aren't CCC-rated, 6x levered, recent LBOs: they would have no problem obtaining 7% financing. From the Loan Survey Report: Complete Story »

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - August 17, 2009) - Interface Masters Technologies, an industry leader and innovator in networking solutions, has announced an additional member of its Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter Card family that is designed to integrate with PCI-e based Networking Servers, Inline...

SCHAUMBURG, IL--(Marketwire - August 17, 2009) - Misumi USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Misumi Corporation, part of Misumi Group, Inc. (TOKYO: 9962) (TSE: 9962) announces the expansion of its line of Single Axis Actuators with an all-new product offering -- Misumi Single Axis Robot RS Series Actuators...

SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwire - August 17, 2009) - MoqiZone, a leading digital entertainment delivery platform company, today awarded a contract to Axxcelera Broadband Wireless Inc. to supply the WiMAX Base stations and CPEs for their proprietary MoqiZone WiMAX Network in China. "Axxcelera's...

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - August 17, 2009) - MosChip Semiconductor Technology Ltd., a leading provider of high performance connectivity solutions for consumer, industrial and computing applications, today announced its MCS9990 co-processor that features a PCI Express (PCIe) to quad USB IO...